Katie Warburton author page

Katie Warburton biography

Katie Warburton is a nurse academic and writer whose work focuses on children and young people living with HIV.

Public professional material from Chiva identifies her as a Senior Lecturer in Children and Young People’s Nursing at the University of Central Lancashire. Chiva has also listed her as a steering group member and later reported that she won the BHIVA Chloe Orkin Award for best oral abstract presentation at BHIVA 2024.

Warburton is the author of research on how HIV is explained to children. Her published work includes the 2022 article Talking to children about their HIV diagnosis: a discussion rooted in different global perspectives, co-authored with Lars Navér, Juliet Houghton and Kamila Fatikhova in the British Journal of Nursing.

In 2026, Chiva reported that a storybook titled Grace, Gigi and HIV had been developed as part of its resources to support conversations with younger children about HIV.